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Data associated with: Development Effects of Rural Electrification

By Energy Division (VPS/INE/ENE)

What do we know about the effects of improved access to electricity? Does the research tell a unified story? To answer these questions, this brief examines 50 impact evaluation studies, focusing on the effects of electrification on education, labor, and income indicators. Overall, the literature finds substantial welfare gains, which tend to be greatest for women and small firms. On average, electrification leads increases of around 7% in school enrollment, 25% in employment, and 30% in incomes. However, the estimates vary widely, with many studies finding no effects, indicating weak links in the empirical literature. This review suggests that addressing the sources of such variance could be a means to fill the persistent knowledge gaps and to improve the effectiveness of electrification policies.

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Identifier https://doi.org/10.60966/b5fqzlkn
License Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivs 3.0 IGO
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Jimenez Mori, Raul Alberto, 2017, Data associated with: Development Effects of Rural Electrification, IDB Open Data, https://doi.org/10.60966/b5fqzlkn
Published date 2017-01-01
Modified date 2025-04-10
Language English
Temporal coverage 1994-2015
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Region Latin America and the Caribbean
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Data collection type Observational Data
Statistical type Cross-sectional Data
Data structure Structured Data

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